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  • With Bob Stoops now gone I can see the Buckeyes opening 7-0 to the bye week and maybe 11-0 going to "m".

    Talk about some early cupcakes some D-1AA teams might have been better matchups.

  • Opening the season with a Big Ten game is highly unusual....especially a game on the road.

  • Opening the season with a Big Ten game is highly unusual....especially a game on the road.

    @the-gipper said:

    Opening the season with a Big Ten game is highly unusual....especially a game on the road.

    Yeah new scheduling protocols with the early generally weak 1 D-1AA matchups virtually gone because you get penalized in the all important rankings.....which impact your end of season bowl and mini-playoff matchups.

    Plus the D-1AA teams took a major payday hit from the loss of big school payouts which was often a huge part of their yearly athletic budget, they now are scrambling just to fill a schedule.

    I remember YSU at OSU in front of ~100,000 rabid Buckeye fans and a huge check, a now YSU president Jim Tressel influence, but it was done all over the USA with the coaches networking.

  • @the-gipper said:

    Opening the season with a Big Ten game is highly unusual....especially a game on the road.

    Yeah new scheduling protocols with the early generally weak 1 D-1AA matchups virtually gone because you get penalized in the all important rankings.....which impact your end of season bowl and mini-playoff matchups.

    Plus the D-1AA teams took a major payday hit from the loss of big school payouts which was often a huge part of their yearly athletic budget, they now are scrambling just to fill a schedule.

    I remember YSU at OSU in front of ~100,000 rabid Buckeye fans and a huge check, a now YSU president Jim Tressel influence, but it was done all over the USA with the coaches networking.

    @mjp28 said:

    Yeah new scheduling protocols with the early generally week 1 D-1AA matchups virtually gone because you get penalized in the all important rankings.....which impact your end of season bowl and nomini-playoff matchups.

    Plus the D-1AA teams took a major payday hit from the loss of big school payouts which was often a huge part of their yearly athletic budget, they now are scrambling just to fill a schedule.

    I remember YSU at OSU in front of ~100,000 rabid Buckeye fans and a huge check, a now YSU president Jim Tressel influence, but it was done all over the USA with the coaches networking.

    It isn't the D-AA schools issue.....they have Army on their schedule which is on par with D-1AA....its just the scheduling.

    Also....The Big Ten now has a rule that Big Ten teams may not schedule D-1AA. And FYI, the SEC has no such rule. They will still be pleased to schedule a full round of cupcakes. Though, with Army and UNLV that is a bit cupcakish of a non-conf. schedule for OSU.

  • @mjp28 said:

    Yeah new scheduling protocols with the early generally week 1 D-1AA matchups virtually gone because you get penalized in the all important rankings.....which impact your end of season bowl and nomini-playoff matchups.

    Plus the D-1AA teams took a major payday hit from the loss of big school payouts which was often a huge part of their yearly athletic budget, they now are scrambling just to fill a schedule.

    I remember YSU at OSU in front of ~100,000 rabid Buckeye fans and a huge check, a now YSU president Jim Tressel influence, but it was done all over the USA with the coaches networking.

    It isn't the D-AA schools issue.....they have Army on their schedule which is on par with D-1AA....its just the scheduling.

    Also....The Big Ten now has a rule that Big Ten teams may not schedule D-1AA. And FYI, the SEC has no such rule. They will still be pleased to schedule a full round of cupcakes. Though, with Army and UNLV that is a bit cupcakish of a non-conf. schedule for OSU.

    @the-gipper said:

    It isn't the D-AA schools issue.....they have Army on their schedule which is on par with D-1AA....its just the scheduling.

    Also....The Big Ten now has a rule that Big Ten teams may not schedule D-1AA. And FYI, the SEC has no such rule. They will still be pleased to schedule a full round of cupcakes. Though, with Army and UNLV that is a bit cupcakish of a non-conf. schedule for OSU.

    Army is D-1A a poor one but still D-1A and yes there's not a uniform set of rules among all conferences but scheduling an AA team can really hurt you in the T25 polls, with all the parity now a few points can drop you down out of a top 4, top 10 or whatever ranking.

    I have listened to various D-1AA ADs and coaches talk about their scheduling and financial problems related to these matters. It even trickles down to DII levels in some cases.

    But when was the NCAA ever really consistent on everything (never?). Plus the P5 conferences and their now mega 16 teams have changed things including breaking up good old rivalries.

  • Easily 11-0 going into the game

  • Easily 11-0 going into the game

    @mld-woody said:

    Easily 11-0 going into the game

    Maybe the most anticipated The Game in many years, we'll see what "m" has left from last year. Plus we'll also see the accumulated value of having Coach Harbaugh in Ann Arbor.

  • I already have my ticket

  • Composite Top 25 college football rankings from The Sporting News

    TEAM POINTS

    1. Alabama 147

    2. Ohio State 142

    3. Florida State 137

    4. USC 134

    5. Penn State 120

    6. Clemson 119

    7. Washington 111

    8. Oklahoma 110

    9. Oklahoma State 95

    10. Auburn 92

    11. Michigan 88

    12. Wisconsin 80

    13. LSU 76

    14. Georgia 76

    15. Stanford 67

    16. Louisville 65

    17. Kansas State 47

    18. Florida 44

    19. South Florida 43

    20. Miami, Fla. 36

    21. West Virginia 34

    22. Texas 21

    23. Tennessee 16

    24. Oregon 14

    25. Boise State 11

  • Preseason FPI Rankings - Version 1.0 for top 130 see link. http://www.espn.com/blog/statsinfo/post/_/id/129505/ohio-state-is-no-1-in-preseason-fpi-1-0

    RANK TEAM FPI PRED

    1 Ohio State 28.9 2 12.1 2 14.8 <---- lots of B10 😉

    2 Alabama 25.9 9 8.3 1 15.7

    3 Oklahoma 24.5 1 17.4 20 6.2

    4 Florida State 24.3 3 11.8 4 11.6

    5 Auburn 21.5 5 10.4 10 9.4

    6 LSU 19.6 10 8.0 6 10.4

    7 Clemson 19.6 16 7.0 3 11.9

    8 Penn State 18.9 6 9.9 17 7.7

    9 Washington 18.7 8 8.6 12 8.7

    10 Wisconsin 17.4 15 7.0 9 9.4

    11 Stanford 16.7 30 4.7 8 9.7

    12 USC 16.3 18 6.7 15 8.1

    13 Georgia 15.6 36 3.5 5 11.1

    14 Louisville 14.9 21 6.3 14 8.4

    15 Florida 14.5 46 2.6 7 10.0

    16 Miami (FL) 14.4 40 3.3 11 9.3

    17 Notre Dame 14.2 14 7.2 22 6.0

    18 Michigan 13.7 26 5.2 19 7.3

    19 TCU 13.5 11 7.6 27 5.2

    20 Tennessee 13.4 22 6.2 25 5.4

    21 Oregon 12.3 4 11.6 61 -0.1

    22 North Carolina State 12.2 19 6.5 23 5.7

    23 UCLA 12.1 34 3.8 18 7.4

    24 Texas 11.8 41 3.3 16 7.9

    25 Washington State 11.7 13 7.3 29 4.3

    26 Oklahoma State 10.6 12 7.3 46 2.2

    27 Texas A&M 10.6 43 2.9 21 6.1

    28 Baylor 8.7 27 5.0 32 3.6

    29 Northwestern 8.6 48 2.5 26 5.

  • Everyone is hating on us because we have the least returning starters in college football. I think.

  • Everyone is hating on us because we have the least returning starters in college football. I think.

    @mld-woody said:

    Everyone is hating on us because we have the least returning starters in college football. I think.

    Not hating just an observation.

  • Everyone is hating on us because we have the least returning starters in college football. I think.

    @mld-woody said:

    Everyone is hating on us because we have the least returning starters in college football. I think.

    That is not why "you" are hated.

  • @mld-woody said:

    Everyone is hating on us because we have the least returning starters in college football. I think.

    Not hating just an observation.

    @mjp28 said:

    Not hating just an observation.

    Well an observation resulting in lower rankings. I think it is an overreaction. We'll see.

  • @mjp28 said:

    Not hating just an observation.

    Well an observation resulting in lower rankings. I think it is an overreaction. We'll see.

    @mld-woody said:

    Well an observation resulting in lower rankings. I think it is an overreaction. We'll see.

    Well 18 isn't so bad.

    And almost two months until my favorite sport NCAA football!

  • At first on the FPI 130 I thought the B10 was well represented but on closer inspection:

    1 OSU

    8 PSU

    10 WIS

    18 M

    29 NW

    39 IOW

    57 NEB (miss Bo now?)

    58 MST (really?)

    60 IND

    61 MIN

    69 MAR (was MAR & RUT a total bust?)

    83 ILL (ILLINI fans ill)

    88 RUT

    98 PUR (gave up football for engineering? )

  • MST?

  • OSU wins it all this year. UM won't even be invited to a bowl game.

  • Composite Top 25 college football rankings from The Sporting News

    TEAM POINTS

    1. Alabama 147

    2. Ohio State 142

    3. Florida State 137

    4. USC 134

    5. Penn State 120

    6. Clemson 119

    7. Washington 111

    8. Oklahoma 110

    9. Oklahoma State 95

    10. Auburn 92

    11. Michigan 88

    12. Wisconsin 80

    13. LSU 76

    14. Georgia 76

    15. Stanford 67

    16. Louisville 65

    17. Kansas State 47

    18. Florida 44

    19. South Florida 43

    20. Miami, Fla. 36

    21. West Virginia 34

    22. Texas 21

    23. Tennessee 16

    24. Oregon 14

    25. Boise State 11

    @the-gipper said:

    Composite Top 25 college football rankings from The Sporting News

    TEAM POINTS

    1. Alabama 147

    2. Ohio State 142

    3. Florida State 137

    4. USC 134

    5. Penn State 120

    6. Clemson 119

    7. Washington 111

    8. Oklahoma 110

    9. Oklahoma State 95

    10. Auburn 92

    11. Michigan 88

    12. Wisconsin 80

    13. LSU 76

    14. Georgia 76

    15. Stanford 67

    16. Louisville 65

    17. Kansas State 47

    18. Florida 44

    19. South Florida 43

    20. Miami, Fla. 36

    21. West Virginia 34

    22. Texas 21

    23. Tennessee 16

    24. Oregon 14

    25. Boise State 11

    Lol. No matter what, Texas must be in every preseason football top 25. It is written in stone somewhere.

  • Returning starters is traditionally a pretty good indicator...